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DONATIONS, 1897.
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Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. 100.00 Messrs. Palmer & Turner.
V. H. Deacon, Hisq................
The Hongkong & Shanghai Bank 100,00 T. Jackson, Esq.............
25.00
25,00
50.00
W. Tarn, Esq.
25.00
Messrs. Butterfield & Swire... 50.00 Hon. C. P. Chater, C.M.G....... 50.00 50.00 Hon, E. R. Belilios, C.M.G. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co. 50.00 Messrs. J. D. Humphreys & Sun... 50,00 Messrs. Melchers & Co... 50.00 50.00 Messrs. Reiss & Co. Messra. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.... 50.00 Messrs. Siemssen & Co. .......... 50.00 Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co....... 50,00 Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co....... 50.00
Messrs. Bradley & Co.
R. F. C. (Canton)....
25.00
D. Gillies, Esq..........
201
Messrs. Linstead & Davies
20:00
H. N. Mody, Esq.......
20.00
Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. H.E. Major-General W, Black ... ..
C. Inchbald, Esq.
N. J. Ede, Esq.
20,00
20000
J. R. Crook, Esq. Hon. T. Scrcombe-Smith
H. 3. Hillier, Esq..
50,00 H. A. Ritchie, Esq.
Sir John W. Carrington, C.M.G... 30.00 V. A. C. H...... Hon. W. M. Goodman ......................................... 30,00]`F. D. Goddard, Esq. Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co...... 25.00¦ Edward Osborne, Esq.....
25.00 T. H. W. Mesars. E. D. Sassoon & Co.......
20.00
10307
HONG KONG,
C?
25th JULY 1898
he Right HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,
H.M's Secretary of State for the Colonies.
I respectfully beg to address you in the interest of the
blic School' in Hong Kong, known as the "Diocesan School and 20.00 hanags of whose Committe of Management I am chairman.
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
This School is a boarding and day School for boys, founded 10.00 years ago; the scholars are European, Eurasian, and Chinese,
y being orphans. The Masters are Englishmen generally trained 1000 certificated. The School is recognized as one of the most jessful in the Colony. It receives a grant-in-add from the 10.00 pornment, the only other sources of income being fees from olars,and donations solicited annually from the public.
10.00
10.00
10.00
25.00 J. Tharburn, Esq. Messra, Gilman & Co.
.......... 25.00 G. C. Anderson, Esq. Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. Messre. Aruhold, Karberg & Co... 25.00 Hon. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, C... 10,00
25.00 Hon. A. G.. Wise Messrs. Meyer & Co...
Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co.... 25.00 G. T. Veitch, Esq. Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master 25.00! G. Stewart, Est.
J. H. Lewis, Esti.
25.00 Collected by Mrs. E. Bowdler
10,00
10.00
67.70
You are aware that the staff of English Masters at Queen's 10.00 age in this Colony has been already slightly, and is about to further increased. Last year an appointment was made, and an $1,658.70 stant Master was selected from the Diocesan School; according-
after 6 months' notice, he left us to go to Queen's College.
25.00 Collected by Mrs. W. C. H. Hastings 21.00
Rev. R. F. Cobbold
Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co.......... 25.00 |
PRINTED BY KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED, HONGKONG.
is true that in accordance with agreement,he refunded a portion the money we had expended on his passage from England, but such refund does not compensate for the loss of a good man, whosevalue us increases with his experience here; moreover such a practice s upon us the burden of the expense of another passage from land, the additional risk of a new master being less suitable, the inconvenience of delay, all which things are detrimental our usefulness as a Public School. It is obvious that we cannot peatedly bear the cost of bringing a new assistant Master from
and
It might be replied that such appointments as these are made their merits, and cannot be interfered with. We quite agree that
is so; and we have no wish to stand in the way of the promotion individual master .We do, however,object that the Management
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